Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1937 — Page 1
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VOLUME 49—NUMBER |54
FARLEY TO JOIN PRESIDENTIAL TRAIN IN CITY
Roosevelt Expected to Pause Here Around 4 P. M. On Capital Trip. |
NO RECEPTION PLANNED
Hoosier Are Prepared
Informal Chat.
Party Chieftains for
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|JUDGE DECLARES
Political conferences to de-| termine Administration poli- | cies for the remainder of the present session of Congress are to begin here today when James A. Farley, Postmaster General and national Democratic Chairman, joins Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Mr. Farley arrived in Indianapolis about noon and went into a series of conferences with state Democratic leaders In, the Indianapolis Athletic Club. : It was understood that the President’s train would pass through Terre Haute at about 2 p. m. Mr. Farley had lunch here with Dick Heller, Governor Townsend's executive secretary. The President, returning from a vacation trip, is due to arrive here shortly after 4 p. m. today. His special train is expected to stop at Union Station about five minutes. Although State officials and party leaders, as requested, have declined to comment, it is believed some party leaders will board the train for informal talks. : Mr. Farley left Washington last night and will make the 600-mile trip back to the Capitol with the President from here. e is expected
to discuss, among other things, his ||
recent swing through the Midwest and the reaction he found to the Supreme Court reform plan. : The Cabinet member visited Indianapolis, and was guest of state officials and party leaders at a dinner here recently. He. also spoke at postoffice dedication ceremonies in several Indiana cities. Governor Townsend is an ardent supporter of the Cofirt reform plan. He is repérted to have conferred with Mr. Farley by long-distance telephone last night.
Expect Farley to Report On Legislation
By Uniled Press ABOARD PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S SPECIAL TRAIN EN ROUTE TO WASHINGTON, May 13.—President Roosevelt sped through the Midwest today toward Washington, where he will arrive tomorrow to face a Congressional revolt forming against part of his legislative program. Postmaster General’ James A. Farley was expected to join the President at Indianapolis, this afternoon, presumably to discuss Senate progress on the judiciary reorganization proposal and House consideration of relief and the CCC.
Court Plan Doomed,
Stokes Claims
By THOMAS L. STOKES : Times $pecial Writer | WASHINGTON, -May 134-Presi-dent Roosevelt's Supreme Cdurt enlargement plan is doomed lin the Senate. : This news will be taken to the Chief Executive by Senate Democratic leaders when he returns tomorrow from his fishing trip. It is based on their most recent poll. They will plead with Mr, Roosevelt to attempt a compromise rather than. face a loss of prestige by pushing the issue to certain defeat. The compromise now being discussed, and which they are expected to’ urge upon the President, would call for a flat increase of two judges, making a Supreme Court of 11 members, coupled with a constitutional amendment making retirement compulsory at 75. The word that came today from Administration sources was that the President would insist on a showdown in the Senate on his plan, (Turn to Page Three)
BOB BURNS
Says: May 13.—~You
git kinda lonesome livin’ in a big town where you go all day without seein’ anybody you know, least you ain’t bothered with a lotta gossip. In a small town where everybody knows you, youve 2 0t to watch your step because no matter what you do, some suspicious person .is apt to misinterpret it and start tongues waggin’ all over town. I know my > Uncle Slug almost had his reputation ruined down home one time jest because some gossipy, suspicious woman started a rumor that he’d been drinkin.’ This woman happened to be standing up on the depot platform when Uncle Slub walked up, dropped a penny in the letter slot and then looked up at the station clock and muttered somethin’ about losin’ weight. 2
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SUITS COWARDLY
Markey Says Actions by Ex-Cumberland Aids Reflect on Him.
Superior Court Judge Joseph Markey charged today that suits against the State Department of Financial Institutions were brought by former officers and directors of the Cumberland Bank in “the wrong spirit.” Liquidation of the ‘bank by the department is pending in Judge Markey's court. The suits asked that the department be ordered to return records and books of the bank to the former officers and directors; vasked a judgment of $250,000 damages against the department and asked that liquidation of the bank’s assets ke taken from the department and that a receiver be appointed. Judge Markey summoned Carl Ploch, department member in charge of the liquidation, and other department members into court and ordered them not to turn over the books to anyone, or let the books out of their custody, no matter what order or request they received. “Don’t be alarmed,” he said “by charges made against you. They have not been made in the right spirit. They are cowardly and cruel. Everything you have done in this liquidation of the Cumberland Bank has had the approval of this court. “I assume the whole responsibility. I insist that regardless of any order or request you get for the original records and books in your possession that none of them shall be allowed out of your custody. “Anyone asking to see them may do so, but under no circumstances shall they be ‘taken out of vour custody or the custody of this court. I stand behind everything you do. “These law suits are a reflection on this court and the State Department of Fnancial Institutions. No action or records have been hidden in this case. Everything has been done in open court.”
SON OF DEPUTY DIES “IN CROSSING CRASH
Walter S. Taylor's Death Brings ’37 Toll to 58.
(Photos, Page Three) A 24-year-old deputy sheriff’s son
| today became Marion County’s 58th
traffic. victim of 1937 and the third motorist to die of accident injuries in less than 24 hours. : Three other persons were treated at local hospitals for minor injuries. Twenty-seven motorists were to face Municipal Judge Charles Karabell on traffic violation charges. Walter S. Taylor, Maywood, son of Deputy Sheriff David A. Taylor, was Killed instantly today when the car he was driving struck a Pennsylvania Railroad flasher signal at Southeastern Ave. > | Three witnesses told police, they (Turn to Page Three)
MERRILL DELAYED IN RETURN TO AMERICA
By United Press SOUTHPORT, England, May- 13. —Henry T. “Dick” Merrill, American transport flier will take off tonight on his return flight across the Atlantic with a load of coronation pictures. He expected to leave about 9 p. m. (3 p. m. Indianapolis time). .
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Children Find Hospitals and Deputies at ‘End of Rainbow’
Two With 41 Cents Start Afoot for N. Y.; Ice Cream Leads Another to Grief.
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By JOE COLLIER ALPH EARL FREDERICK, 3, wanted ice cream and he wandered , off after the ice cream wagon as though he had found an Alice in Wonderland looking glass in which were reflected all the
Robert Booth, 9, and his sister, Barbara, 12, wanted to see New York City. Hand in hand they stepped into the night, , Six-year-old Patricia Burkhard saw a pan of chili boiling over on the stove in the kitchen of her home.
She thought she would help
One at a time, this is what followed in each of the above cases. ” 8 2
The ice cream wagon was white and was pulled by a brown horse. Yesterday morning, Ralph crawled through a broken part of the fence that surrounds the Frederick home, 922 Coffey St, and got across the street nea the wagon before his mother, Mrs. Essie. Frederick, found him. Gives Ralph Spanking She spanked him and warned if he went into the street among the whizzing autos. She returned to her washing.
Yesterday afternoon, Ralph saw
the white wagon and brown horse again. He crawled through the fence. He followed the wagon for a block, started across the intersection of Ray St. and Arbor Ave., and was struck by a truck.
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RS. FREDERICK found him lying on the ground, surrounded by neighbors. The police came and took both to City Hospital where Ralph was ir a serious condition. There Mrs. Frederick, a slight little woman, tearfully counted on her *ingers, so she wouldn’t miss any, the names of her other children—Richard, 186, Elenor, 14, Chester, 13, Gladys Irene, 10, Mary, 7, Charles, 5, Ruth, 2, Shirley Ann, 9, and Marguerite, 19, the only one not living at home. Ice cream? Yes, all of her children like ice cream, and, she said, they get it, too, when there’s money in the house for it, but Mr. Frederick has been out of work a great deal. The Booth children had been put to bed last night in their home, 40 S. Walnut Ave, Southport. Their mother, Mrs. Julian Booth, tucked them in bed and left at 8:30 p. m. Their father came home at 10 p. m. and they were gone. He thought they were with Mrs. Booth. She arrived at 10:30 and City, County and State police were called. :
n n 8 The Booth children had left their beds, dressed themselves, and gone downstairs. They got their
"Solis baniis. any laboriously shook all of the pennies from them.
They put on coats, left the.
house, and walked nine miles along auto infested highways before they were found at New Bethel at 3 a. m. by deputy sherifs. “Where are you going?” the deputies asked. “To New York,” they replied. “How were you going to get there?” “Walk,” they said. In Barbara’s hand were 41 pennies. oom” RS. BURKHARD said Patricia was helping her to prepare chili for luncheon yesterday noon for her brothers and sisters—Mary, 19; Margaret, 17; Clare, 16; Cecelia, 13; John Jr., 11; Joann, 10, and Joseph, 8. :
Patricia called: “Mother, there's
a man at the door.” Mrs. Burkhard left the kitchen. Then she heard a scream. She rushed back into the kitchen and saw Patricia. enveloped in flames. She tore off her burning clothing. A friend summoned the police. The first aid squad seni for an ambulance.
They took mother and child to
City Hospital. Patricia didn’t moan much as the doctors worked over her blistered little body on the tall white table in the receiving ward. Mrs. Burkhard’s hands were dressed—they were considerably burned.
” ” 8 HEY took Patricia to the ward and hoped she would sleep. Mrs. Burkhard said Patricia undoubtedly had tried to move the pan by using her fludfy little apron as a holder for the hoe handle. The apron caught fire, she dropped it, and the burning apron ignited her dress. Patricia’s condition is serious— first and second-degree burns.
THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1937
WINDSOR FACES CHURCH, STATE WEDDING BANS
Duke Reported Upset Over
Government’s Attitude Toward Marriage.
CEREMONY IN JUNE
Religious Ritual in Paris or At Chateau Now Being Debated.
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By United Press MONTS, France, May 13.—Definite wedding arrangements of the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis
Warfield, especially the tentative guest list, were held in abeyance today pending solution of a dispute between the royal family and the British Government over official recognition of the wedding. The Duke, devoted as he is to Mrs. Warfield, was reported to have been upset over the Government's objections to the attendance of any member of the royal family at a private, civil wedding in the Chateau Cande here. Both the Duke and Mrs. Warfield favor a private chateau wedding rather than a religious ceremony in Paris at which, the blessing of the church having ‘been obtained, the British Government might consent to the presence of a member or members of the royal family. The Duke was leaving the question to the family in London. Hig spokesman, Herman L. Rogers, said reports that the Duke had telephoned an appeal for intervention to his mother, Queen Mary, were “absolutely untrue” and that “there is nothing in the whole story.” The Duke was «&nown, however, to be anxious for official recognition of the wedding, in honor to his bride. ~ The ceremony still was set tentatively for the first week in June. Not only has the Government declined to provide for him from public funds, not only does it oppose the attendance of members of the royal family at his wedding to Mrs. Wallis Warfield, but now it has moved— definitely if delicately—to restrict the places where he may reside in the future, according to reports. He has been informed, it was understood, that it is not desirable that he marry, or reside thereafter, in Austria or elsewhere in Central Europe because the entire area is regarded as a potential danger spot. France apparently was approved. But in France if the Duke wants a religious wedding, he is faced by the problem of finding a Protestant clergyman willing to marry a divorcee. >
King George Begins
‘Life of Service’ LONDON, May 13.—King George VI, happy in the knowledge he had received a demonstration of loyalty unprecedented in British history, embarked today on the life of serv(Turn to Page Three)
Irish, Peeved At George VI, Blow Up No. 11
By United Press : DUBLIN, Irish Free State, May 13.—Anti-British demonstrations in connection with the corona-
tion of King George VI were climaxed today by an explosion
which wrecked the equestrian statue of George II, his ancestor. One of the most powerful bombs ever exploded in Dublin detonated during the morning rush hour, tore the horse from its position on a pedestal and hurled it 20 feet. The King’s figure was blown from the horse and both arms were torn off. The blast was the culmination of more than 24 hours of “twisting the British lion’s tail” during which a British flag was burned in public. Persons in homes near the statue were thrcwn {from their beds by the explosion. A passing bus buckled, sending women passengers rushing to the street in a panic. .
RULER TURNS TO EMPIRE'S WOES
Shouting Over, King Faces Internal Troubles of Defense, Trade.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor LONDON, May 13.—Now that the tumult and the shouting have died and the captains and the kings are departing, the real business will begin. Tomorrow the King and other principal moguls of the British Empire will open the most important imperial conference since Britain herself became just one member of a far-flung commonwealth. The parley will have a vital bearing on the Empire and on the rest of the world, including America. For the agenda includes not only problems of foreign policy and defense, but of trade as well." Defense, however, is by far the most important item. Never before in peacetime has the problem of defense confronted the Empire in such a form or with such force as today. Since the World War the Empire has not felt itself menaced until recently. It depended on the League of Nations and on treaties to keep the peace. These have all crumbled. (Turn to Page Three)
20-DEGREE DROP OF MERCURY FORECAST
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 60 10 a. m... 62 11 a. m... 61 12 (noon). 62 1p. m.
6 a. 62 Y a. 63 8 a. 65 9 a.
A 20-degree drop in temperature to around 40 or 45 degrees by tomorrow morning was predicted by the United States Weather Bureau today. Summer warmth was forecast to be replaced by chilly breezes from the north following a long period of overcast skies. Yes, the sun is predicted to be out again tomorrow.
Billion and Half Relief . Bill Reported to House
By United Presse WASHINGTON, May 14—The House Appropriations Committee voted today to report favorably a billion-and-a-half-dollar work relief bill, standing by the President’s request for “adequate” funds for the needy and overriding . an economy attempt to cut the program by onethird. The bill will be brought up in the House next week. The committee voted 23 to 14 for the appropriation. At the same time the committee voted 20 to 16 to direct the WPA to utilize the fund over the 12 months period so there would be no necessity of asking for 1 deficiency measure next session.
House leaders predicted its pas-.
sage intact, despite Republican and insurgent Democratic efforts to reduce the funds, increase them or amend the measure to turn relief administration back to the states. The House began consideration today of the 115-million-dollar In-
terior Department supply bill, which carries 57 million dollars for public construction projects. Testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, made public today, revealed that Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins urged the full relief appropriation be provided. Even so, unless private industry takes more than 500,000 persons off of relief rolls in the next few months, additional funds may be required later, he said. Hopkins characterized relief aid as a possibly permanent Federal obligation, predicting that between 4,500,000 and 5,000,000 persons were likely to remain idle even with a full return of prosperity. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, testifying * at executive hearings on the proposed allocation of 75 million dollars for Resettlement Administration loans and grants, viewed Federal aid to destitute farmers as a probable permanent necessity. :
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STEEL, AUTO MEN STRIKE
43,000 Workers Strike With Two-Industry ‘Tieup Likely. |
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C. I. O. Throws Whole Force Into Fight For Contracts.
; ‘By United Press Police fired tear gas today
at striking steel workers while walkouts in that idustry and in automobile plants took 43,000 from their jobs and threatened a major industrial tieup. At the same time striking film unions continued their plans for a nation-wide boycott of thea-
ters. The tear gas barrage was turned on strikers of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. at Pittsburgh after workers struck the company plants there and at Aliquippa, Pa. Twenty-seven thousand steel union men quit the plants while the John L. Lewis Committee for Industrial Organization mobilized its entire forces to compel independent steel producers to sign written union contracts.
Strike for Contracts
The strike was the union’s first effort to force the “big five” independent producers, who together employ more than 175,000 men, to sign contracts. They are: Jones & Laughlin, Republic Steel Corp, Bethlehem Steel, National Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube. = Jones & . Laughlin’s refusal to give a written agreement exclusively to S. W. O. C. was the sole issue in the walkout. Frequent mild disorders occurred as hundreds of pickets guarded the main gates of the two plants today. Union workers in Republic Steel,
which employ 52,000 in 35 plants, |
and in Youngstown Sheet & Tube, which employs 26,000, have voted authority for Murray to call strikes unless the companies agree to sign collective bargaining agreements. At Cleveland 6000 workers in the Fisher Body plant struck in protest against alleged discrimination by plant foremen and because of the company’s reported failure to settle grievances. In Saginaw, the plants of three G. M. subsidiaries were down as the result of strikes. The corporation said that 8000 workers in the plants of the Chevrolet Grey Iron, malleable iron and parts plant, were out. Strikers were in an ugly mood, a corporation spokesman reported, and had refused to deal either with reptesentatives of the company or the union.
Saginaw Plants Down
The Chevrolet and Fisher Body plants at Janesville, Wis., remained closed and 2500 persons were idle. Strike of welders at the Flint No. 2 Fisher plant was settled and 2000 men returned to work. Simultaneously, Homer Martin, international U. A. W. president, said at a Chicago mdss meeting that Henry Ford eventually would “bargain collectively with American workers.”
By United Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. May 13—A bill making sit-down strikes in Tennessee a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than $50, was sent to Governor Browning for his signature today.
"THE SEVEN HORSEMEN OF DEATH" by DAVID DIETZ Pulitzer Prize Winner, Starts Today on Page 17
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ARMED GUARDS ESCORT STARS
PAST PICKETS
Movie Technicians Growl as Actors Go Through
Studio Lines.
* By United Press HOLLYWOOD, May 13.—Movie stars began hiring armed bodyguards foday to escort them through picket lines of striking technicians at nine major studios. However, police said they did not fear for the actors’ safety. Several actors have guards meet them at their homes in the mornings and accompany them until they are safely past the lines of shuffling pickets. So far, actors have provoked nothing worse than disapproving scowls from pickets. Charles Lessing, head of the 6000 striking studio craftsmen, was preparing to file a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board today, charging producers were conspiring with nonstriking unions in violation of the Wagner act. Actors Unmolested He secid strikers were not going to molest the actors, although they were bitterly disappointed at the failure of the Screen Actors’ Guild to join the strike. The strikers’ plan for a nationwide boycott of theaters was developing slowly. Picketing started in New York and in Detroit. Lessing, executive secretary of the Federation of Motion Picture Crafts, whose 10 unions of movie technicians have been on strike 12 days, said two million union workers
end of the week.
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WHAT A FISH! . . . . . . . WHAT ABOUT CONGRESS? , . . THAT IS SERIOUS . . . . . . WE'LL SHOW THEM . . . .
RACER, MECHANIC IN SPEEDWAY SPIN
Barringer and Aid Unhurt; Lose Full Control.
George Barringer, veteran Speedway pilot, and his riding mechanic escaped injury today when their speeding car went into a double spin on the northwest curve during a practice run. ¢ While traveling at a 112-mile-an-hour pace, Barringer said he ‘lost complete control” of the car and it spun around twice, finishing right side up on the dirt safety apron. The Wichita Falls piolt was driv=ing the four-wheel drive car entered in the May 31 500-mile race by Pete L :Paolo. 1925 winner. . DePoalo was not at the track when the accidenv occurred. : The machine was not damaged badly in today’s spin, and will be repaired at once. It was the first time Barringer had driven the car,
| officials said. Bob Estrich was the
riding mechanic.
TRIMBLE ESTATE
Capitalist Wills Widow Personal Property.
The estate of James H. Trimble, founder of the Western Oil Co, and president of the Trimble Realty Co. and Trimble Oil Co., who died Monday, was estimated at “several million dollars” after his will was filed in Probate Court today. His
| personal estate was valued at $500,- | 000 and real estate at $15,000. The
estimate was made by a court attache. Insurance policies and trust funds (Turn to Page Three)
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TWO ISSUES LEFT
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'Checkoff and Closed | Shop Separate Both Sides.
Bowman Elder, receiver, to day announced that the Indie ana Railroad has agreed to increase by 71% per cent the wages of its Anderson em ployees under a proposed cons! ditéonal settlement. The Ane derson employees have Leen striking for this since March
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The settlement is conditional acceptince by the Amalgamated Association of Electric Street Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America and by the Marion County Superior Court, where the receivers ship is listed. It. is conditional, also, on three other points, agreed to in nogotia«| tions between Mr. Elder, Thomas B.\ Hyland, U. S. Conciliator of Labor,’ and Thomas R. Hutson, State Labor’ Commissioner, which were: That all employees be returned to their former positions as soon as practicable,” without discrimination; that the contract between the union and the company dated April 1, 1936, . be reinstated for one year; that the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen agree for a period of a year to make no demands of the receiver for ine creased wages.
Union Favors Agreement
The conciliators reported that the Indianapolis Amalgamated union had signified its willingness to ace cept the agreement, and would cone tinue working at the present wage without making further demands for a period of a year. They reported that only .twe points are now holding up action, Mr. Elder refuses to institute the checkoff system and closed shop. Meanwhile the company at Nae tional Labor- Relations Board hearse ings charged today the union was attempting to destroy its franchise and to cut off the company’s power, Before Examiner William Seagle, Merle M. Wall, receiver’s attorney, stated that testimony in the come pany’s behalf would prove those charges. He placed Frank Norviel, ‘special employee of the receiver, on the stand and, after strenuous protest by NLRB and the Amalgamated at
torneys, got into the record allega< tions that: Since the strike, efforts have been made before the Indiana Public Service Commission to obtain frane chises for busses and trucks to come pete with the company on lines from Anderson to Indianapolis, from Anderson to Muncie, and from Ine dianapolis to Ft. Wayne.
Anderson Franchises Sought
Efforts have been made to get franchises for seven motor bus routes in Anderson to compete with the company-owned electric street - railway system there, now tied up by the strike. Efforts had been made in Washe ington to take from the Indiana Railroad its mail contracts and to give them to competing organiza tions. oe : . Subsequently Attorney Wall placed Walter F. See. company home office, on the stand, and sought by questioining to- provs that employees themselves, and not
‘the company. originated the petie
tions ‘for the 12% per cent raise as opposed to the 20 per cent granted by: an arbitration board. Hearings today were in the Council Chambers of City Hall. Robert Armstrong, International officer of the Amalgamated, said when informed of the conditions of
| the propused settlement, that Re-
ceiver Elder had in previous negotiations agreed to the check-off and closed shop provisions. WORKER'S CHEST CRUSHED Ernest Jordan, 46. of 629 Blake St., was buried beneath a pile of ce= ment at the Park Board construce tion plant, 29th and Harding Sts., this morning. He was sent to City Hospital with a crushed chest and possible internal injuries.
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